Quest Church: A Community of Grace is a part of the United Methodist Church and holds true to the beliefs and doctrines of the church. Below is a summary of our statement of faith, with Scriptural references.
WE BELIEVE in one true, holy and living God who is the maker and preserver of all things. He has revealed Himself as the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – three persons of one substance, power and eternity.
WE BELIEVE in Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man. He is the Word made flesh, born of the virgin – Mary – by the power of the Holy Spirit. He suffered, was crucified, died and buried to reconcile us to the Father and to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins. There is salvation in no other name.
WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave as an actual event in recorded history. He arose with an actual body, ascended into heaven and will return again to earth as the final judge of all persons.
WE BELIEVE the Holy Spirit is one with the Father and the Son. He is our Helper, Teacher and Guide, and the one who dwells in the lives of all true believers. He provides the power to be witnesses of the good news of Jesus in the entire world.
WE BELIEVE the Holy Bible is the word of God and contains all things necessary for salvation. The Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and it alone is the ultimate rule and guide for living the Christian life.
WE BELIEVE that all persons are sinners by nature and are helpless to change their condition through any human power or ability. We are put into a right relationship to God by faith in Jesus Christ alone. Salvation is a gift of the unconditional love of God (grace) and is available to all who as an act of free will respond to God's offer of salvation.
WE BELIEVE all who put faith in Jesus Christ and the salvation He alone can give are born again and, therefore, citizens of the Kingdom of God. They are made new creations by the power of the Holy Spirit, freed from the curse of sin, and enabled to be faithful servants of God and others. As believers we can fall into a life of sin by an act of our will through a rebellious and disobedient heart toward the known will of God. Forgiveness is available to all who turn from their sin and desire to live a new life following Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE the church is a community of all true believers of Jesus Christ. All Christians need to be a part of the fellowship of a local congregation where the word of God is preached and the sacraments are administered. The church exists for the worship of God, to proclaim the good news about Jesus to the entire world and to help believers mature in their faith so they can be in ministry in the church and mission in the world.
WE BELIEVE the sacraments are signs of God's love and grace for us and of our profession of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. In the practice of the sacraments, by the mystery of faith, we experience the grace of God in our lives and are strengthened in our faith. We observe two sacraments: Baptism and Holy Communion (or "The Lord's Supper).
WE BELIEVE baptism is a sign that we are followers of Christ and marks us as belonging to the family of God. It is a sign of the new birth. We practice the baptism of children but do not believe it is sufficient for salvation. All persons, at some point in their lives, must accept for themselves God's offer of salvation in Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE the Lord's Supper is a sign of God's love toward us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It also reminds us of the way we are to love each other. We are to participate in Holy Communion in faith with a sincere desire to live a new life following Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE that followers of Jesus Christ are to continue growing in their faith and are to seek to be in ministry and mission in and through their local church. Christians are set apart or "sanctified" to live lives that are both fruitful and faithful to the will of God. A person who is sanctified is freed from the power of sin and seeks to live a holy life which is defined as loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and loving others as you would love yourself.
WE BELIEVE it is the will of God for all Christians to join together regularly for the public worship of God. Worship is essential to the life of the church and the regular gathering of the Christian community is necessary for Christian fellowship and growth.
WE BELIEVE that all persons will stand under final judgment of Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE those who are in a right relationship to Jesus Christ will live forever with God in a place the Bible calls heaven, and those who reject the gift of salvation will spend eternity separated from God in a place the Bible calls hell.


Destined to become the Fae Queens of Winter and Summer, Wind Witch Cicely and her cousin Rhiannon are eager to assume their roles and marry the loves of their lives. But while Myst hides in the shadows, seeking to regroup her forces, a closer danger is lurking. Renegade vampires Geoffrey and Leo manage to free the Blood Oracle and set him upon New Forest, Washington. Not satisfied with wreaking havoc on the town, Leo ups the ante by kidnapping Rhiannon. Now, Cicely must lead her forces in a bloody battle to save her cousin before everything they've worked for crumbles to dust.
Make sure to check out the other three books in the Indigo Court Series.
I absolutely love Yasmine and think it is awesome that she contacts you to do cover reveals for her!
Thanks for sharing, can't wait to read more of her series!


A Binge Bag containing a sketchbook will be provided. Please bring along any drawing pens and pencils you wish to draw with but we recommend that you travel lightly.
Whatever inspiring drawing materials you like!
Workshop places limited to 15 persons.
I was sick of just talking about it and wanted to actually do something! I liked the fact that you were learning skills and could make a short-term, yet solid commitment to making art.


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O Intelsat 907 (IS-907) é um satélite de comunicação geoestacionário construído pela Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). Ele está localizado na posição orbital de 27,5 graus de longitude oeste e é operado pela Intelsat. O satélite foi baseado na plataforma LS-1300HL e sua vida útil estimada era de 13 anos.

Lançamento
O satélite foi lançado com sucesso ao espaço no dia 15 de fevereiro de 2003, às 07:00 UTC, por meio de um veículo Ariane-44L H10-3 a partir do Centro Espacial de Kourou na Guiana Francesa. Ele tinha uma massa de lançamento de 4725 kg.

Capacidade e cobertura
O Intelsat 907 é equipado com 44 transponders em Banda C e 12 em Banda Ku para oferecer capacidade para canais de TV e rádio e para serviços de internet e multimídia. Com cobertura sobre a Europa, África, Oriente Médio e América Central e do Sul.

Ver também
 Lista de satélites da Intelsat

Ligações externas
 Dados técnicos (.pdf, em inglês; 174 kB)

Satélites de telecomunicações
Satélites geoestacionários
Intelsat

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Laura Celebrates 10 Years with McGregors!
25 January 2017 saw Laura's 10 Year Anniversary working with McGregors!
"Thanks so much for my Flowers, the obligatory 'Cheeky' card and my beautiful Tiffany bracelet McGregors'.


Ever thought how to end working in a multinational company like Red Hat, Google, Mozilla, or doing your Ph.D. at a top university? Ever wanted to be part of a community, where you have experienced people around you? Wanna work as a software developer on summer instead of any other job? Come to our presentation about Google Summer of Code and experience it for yourself!
The seminar will take place in room D0206 on Tuesday 26 March 2019 from 18:00.
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Posted in MLB Analysis, MLB Florida-Arizona
MLB has a chance to knock the 2020 season right out of the ballpark
stevecontursi April 12, 2020
The MLB Florida-Arizona plan for a resumption of the 2020 season is a winner. Add some bells and whistles, and this could turn into a home run for baseball.
The MLB Florida-Arizona plan to resume the baseball season at the appropriate time shows that with some imagination and positive thinking, lemons can be turned to lemonade.
In a story yesterday, I outlined the basic format of the proposal. New details will continue to emerge as the idea gains traction. Today, for instance, we learned that each league would be divided into three divisions, each consisting of five teams.
These divisions can then be used to form the postseason schedule. As an example, I can see a format in which of the three divisions has two teams qualifying – the division winner and a wild card team.
MLB Corona: Look but don't touch (Oregon Live)
MLB would then have six teams from the Florida Grapefruit League and six from the Arizona Cactus League in the postseason. In effect, each team in both leagues have a 40% chance of making the playoffs.
Some will even argue that in this experimental season, MLB should consider upping the ante to sixty-percent, so that and extra wild card is added in each division. What the hell – why not?
MLB: Don't Stop – Go All The Way With Innovations
For MLB, a unique opportunity is presented. Fans know that whatever schedule and rules are adopted, it's not going to be baseball as usual.
So why not go for it by adopting ideas that have been floated before – some controversial and some not. What can it hurt?
Here are a few ideas that can quickly be adopted and executed immediately:
On The Field Microphones
David Cone – YES Analyst
Bring the fans close to the game. Install in the ground microphones at home plate and all bases. This is better than wiring players up as it takes away the need for the player to be "on stage."
Two Television Announcer Silent Innings
This is a follow-up to the mikes on the field. Pick two innings, say the third and the seventh, and stop the chatter in the television booth.
Allow fans to see the game through their eyes. Later, when the CDC and MLB declare it safe, there'll be the roar of the crowd added to the "in the ballpark" experience.
MLB Institutes The Robo-Umpire At Home Plate
Purists, knock it off. We need the calls to be right, neutral, and fair for both teams. Venus Williams can argue all she wants, but cameras do not lie or make mistakes – that ball was out. Calls on fielded balls at the plate remain in the jurisdiction of an umpire – no jobs are lost.
Seven-Inning Doubleheaders
This one is presented on an as-needed basis for this year to get in as many games as possible.
But if it shows merit, MLB has the option of using it in future years as a vehicle to provide more days off for players, and a reduction in innings played (by four) for every two games on the schedule.
The Universal Designated Hitter (DH)
At least for this season, MLB will see the DH in all games played as a no-brainer and the only way of doing business within the disjointed Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues.
Ron Bloomberg – MLB's First DH
Again, baseball purists will have a fit, but so what?
The diehards will get over it, and National League managers will adapt in the same way they will change to the new rules regarding the use of relief pitchers.
Extra-Inning Games – Man On Second
This is a good rule MLB can test as a potential keeper. As much as I love baseball, it gets to be a bit much when a game is four-hours old in the thirteenth inning.
Starting a half-inning with a man on second creates drama, the opportunity for managers to think outside the box, and the need for closers earning the big bucks to do their job.
MLB World Series At A Neutral Site
Whatever MLB's plan becomes to revive the 2020 season, the World Series will be played at a neutral site, presumably in a seasonably warm climate.
While the idea of games played in a rockin' Yankee Stadium, for instance, images of players with face-warming masks and heaters in the dugout are not baseball. There's a reason why the NFL has its Super Bowl in a warm climate or a climate-controlled venue.
But you know what? If the Yankee's Aaron Judge is coming to bat against the Dodgers Kenley Jansen in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the World Series, the temperature should be reading 71 degrees – not 41 degrees with the wind blowing in at 25 mph.
MLB: And That's Not All
The time to innovate and experiment is when there is little to lose. When you are down 10-3 going into the eighth inning, and you say – what the hell – let's bring the kid in to see what he can do.
MLB – The Chance To Explore Is Now
Or, when faced with a virus that turns itself into a pandemic, you say – what the hell – can it hurt to try this drug or that therapy?
The 2020 MLB season has reached that point. There will be baseball this year; we just don't know when or in what form we'll see baseball, or even if we'll recognize it as our National Pastime.
But the widespread acceptance of change is fleeting, and it has a minuscule window of opportunity. For MLB, that time is now. Don't waste the opportunity.
Go all in. See what works and keep it. Dismiss the rest. Fans are ready – are you?
And Thank You For Sharing
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BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS - Holodeck Survivor/Not Getting Stabbed 7" (Total Punk) Sloppy punk from New Orleans. How can you pass on that? Buck and the boys do that sloppy thing really well. The a-side come really close to the first Persuaders 7" (Y'know the one with Hot Stix etc.) and that's one of my all-time faves. Raunchy, sloppy and not too fast punkrock. B-side is not as hot but still a winner. I think Holodeck Survivor might be my favorite Buck Biloxi track thus far.


I'm looking for a way to enlarge the thumbnail preview in Explorer. A person is scanning in PDF documents in large amounts and then using the thumbnail preview wants to be able to rename them from the default scanner assigned name. The current thumbnail size isn't big enough to see enough detail to rename the file without opening the document.
Ideally I would like to enlarge the thumbnails, but other solutions could work as well. any ideas folks?


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This story takes in Munich, Germany in 1940 Elliott is a seer in the Romani population in Germany. Taiping is a forbidden mix of Romani and wolf shifter with a long lonely life. When she is caught by Elliott eavesdropping she catches his attention and is given a task to prove her loyalty. A truly a amazing story full of incredible action, danger, vampires, gypsies, shifters and dad guys! I love the characters and this story pulled me in. It's so well written and fantastic new series. Don't miss it. Voluntarily reviewed a copy and I honestly loved it.


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Q: Failed to parse XML with an optional element with serde-xml-rs I have a tree of serde-annotated structs and it succeeds in parsing the sample XML, including this fragment:
<bmsg>
    <cmsg>
         <!-- ... -->
    <cmsg>
<bmsg>

Now I am testing with a large sample XML file and the following structs fail because sometimes <cmsg>..</cmsg> is missing. I was deserializing this using:
#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct A {
    #[serde(rename="bmsg")]
    messages: B,                 // <====
}

#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct B {  // bmsg
    #[serde(rename="cmsg")]
    list: Vec<C>,
}

Which resulted in an error in the second struct:
panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: missing field `cmsg`

I changed the first struct to have a Vec<> so it can deal with an optional element:
#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct A {
    #[serde(rename="bmsg")]
    messages: Vec<B>,            // <====
}

#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct B {  // bmsg
    #[serde(rename="cmsg")]
    list: Vec<C>,
}

But serde continues to give the same error. I tried Option<> too, but didn't get anywhere.
What baffles me the most is that I use Vec<> all over the place and never ran into this problem.

A: It would appear Option<T> means that the item does exist, it just is void of content.
The documentation seems to suggest using the default attribute, to tell the deserializer to use the implementation of the Default trait for the type if it cannot be found.
With that in mind, perhaps this would work for you:
#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct A {
    #[serde(rename = "bmsg")]
    messages: B,
}

#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize, Debug)]
struct B {  // bmsg
    #[serde(rename = "cmsg", default)] // <----- use default to call `Default::default()` against this vector
    list: Vec<C>,
}

You can find the code I used to check this in the Playground. It won't run in the Playground, but it produces your expected results running locally.

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Teaching fencing from an early age offers many benefits to both the student and the school. Increasing sporting diversity within Irish schools will improve sports participation and help promote a lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity by our school children. The Interschool fencing programme fosters collaboration and competition between schools and key event in the calendar is the annual Interschool Cup competition.
The competition is open to schools who provide fencing classes to their students during school hours and entry is through the fencing coach. The format of the competition is team based, with an emphasis on learning and building friendships that will support fencers as they compete on the national and hopefully international circuits in the future.
This years competition has kindly been hosted by Clongowes Wood College and will be held on Saturday, May 18th.
Applications to enter the competition may be made through your fencing coach who should contact Katie Arup.
This years competition has kindly been hosted by St Vincents Castleknock College and will be held on Saturday, May 4th.
Applications to enter the competition may be made through your fencing coach who should contact Patrick Dight.
Thank you to Clongowes for hosting the event and to Adrian Lee for sponsoring the trophies and medals. Most of all though, thank you to the schools who are teaching fencing to their school children and good luck to all the participants!
Clongowes Wood College and Glenstal Abbey School took an early lead with both A and B teams defeating their opponents Dunamase and RBAI in round one.
The RBAI A and Clongowes B match was closely contested with the lead switching 6 times before Jaime Palacios from Clongowes closed off the match 45-42 after starting 2 points behind his opponent.
In another close round one match Glenstal B defeated Dunamase A 45-38 after the lead switched 4 times. Luke Fahy fought hard, winning 31 of the 45 hits.
In round two Clongowes A beat Glenstal A 45-28 and claimed a place in the final. An early lead was created by Glenstal's Ben Costello before Clongowes captain Kosi Ugwreru wrestled back control after which his side maintained a comfortable lead.
They were joined in the final shortly afterwards by Clongowes B who defeated Glenstal B. The Clongowes team lead from the start despite a mid match rally by Glenstal's Luke Fitzgerald. Jaime Palacios from Clongowes secured his teams place in the final when he completed the match with a final score of 45-27.
Also in round two the RBAI teams both defeated Dunamase College with team A winning 45-31 vs Dunamase A and RBAI team B beating Dunamase B 45-24. Man of the match for the RBAI was David Martin as he fenced amazingly well, catching up from behind several times during the day for team B.
The 2018 Irish Interschool Fencing Championship was won by Clongowes Wood College with Glenstal Abbey School second and Royal Belfast Academical Institution third. Clongowes Headmaster and host Chris Lumb presented the teams with their trophies.
Runners up Dunamase College were awarded the Maitre Patrick Duffy Memorial Trophy by Fencing Ireland Chairperson Philip Lee who singled out Dunamase for their technical ability and 'fencing intelligence'.


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Zawiya (fransk ortografi zaouïa) är ett begrepp i Maghreb och Västafrika för en islamisk religiös läroinrättning som ungefär motsvarar madrassa i östligare delar av den islamiska världen. Bredvid byggnaden finns ofta en bassäng och ibland en fontän.

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Trenton, NJ--Today, Governor Murphy signed an Executive Order (EO) on Environmental Justice (EJ). The EO directs the Department of Environmental (DEP) Protection to work with other state agencies and external stakeholders to develop guidance that will be used to incorporate environmental justice considerations in the actions of state agencies. The goal of this order is to ensure state agencies are considering the cumulative impacts of their actions in overburdened communities on an ongoing basis.
"The time for talking is past," said Kim Gaddy, Environmental Justice Organizer for Clean Water Action. "This environmental justice (EJ) executive order starts the process and the governor cannot move fast enough to adopt mandatory EJ measures across multiple agencies. We need to significantly reduce the cumulative pollution burdens and health impacts on New Jersey's most vulnerable--low income communities and communities of color."
Low-income communities and communities of color in New Jersey and across the country bear the brunt of pollution and the impacts of climate change. Historically, polluting facilities have been built in or near African American communities, taking advantage of their lack of political power. Environmental justice touches a wide variety of issues related to quality of life, including housing, health, and transportation.
"As fourth generation Newarker who is raised three asthmatic children in its South Ward are literally are gasping for air," said Gaddy. "I have lost family members to asthma. This is got to stop. Thank you Governor Murphy for taking the first steps to affirm your commitment to environmental justice."


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Chris c.t. tamburello age. Chris 'C.T.' Tamburello Wiki: Married To Furtive Girlfriend 2019-03-08
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He attended the University of Massachusetts, ultimately graduating with a level running a business administration. Tamburello and Lilianet Solares made up the way to their relationship goals after dating for nearly three years. Through it all, Chris stuck by her and was by her side in the hospital. Part of the Series The Real world:Paris 2003 Chris became a reality Tv star when he was the participant of The Real world :Paris. You can make a at any time. Chris had come to the media notice when he was the part of The Challenge which is a Tv series.
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He was hindered by glandular fever in 2003, and his 2004 season was also disappointing when he slipped to 97th on the Order of Merit. Later, the child's mother was revealed to be Lilianet Solares. But in September 2014, she was diagnosed yet again, being made aware that her cancer had speared to her colon and stomach lining. Source Income: Musicians At the moment we have a few values about net worth, income, the salary of Chris C. Chris was seen in a white suit whereas his bride wore a sleeveless plunging gown.
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What I'm going through in my life now at 33 is different than what these kids are going through. The couple dated for three years before getting married and even shares a son together. More about the relationship The Challenge star is currently in a relationship with Lilianet Solares. Body Measurements Age: As of 2019, he is 38 years old. Chris' wife and child share a snap on a mother-son outing Photo:- heavy.
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Within three months, she passed away. Angela is a gorgeous lady with elegant personality and has gained herself a pool of audiences. He can also be found on Twitter as. Also, it became more about me and getting my life back and doing it for me. He was known for having quite strong opinions and a brief fuse, and often experienced fights along with his housemate, Adam.


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LandSure Systems Named One of British Columbia's Top Employers
LandSure Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA), has been recognized as one of BC's Top Employers in 2018 by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers.
"The professionalism, knowledge and skills of our employees are key to our success," says Connie Fair, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We have a dedicated and responsive team that serves the public interest by reliably delivering world-leading land title and survey systems to British Columbians."
"Our team is made up of motivated individuals who come to LandSure because they are looking for more than a job in technology. They want to make a difference to BC, and we strive to provide employees with meaningful work in an innovative and supportive environment," explains Rob Cutler, VP Human Resources.
LandSure Systems currently employs approximately 40 people and offers a variety of career opportunities in areas such as information technology, project management, finance, administration, human resources, customer experience, business development and communications.
Now in its 13th year, BC Top Employers is a special designation that recognizes the BC employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offer the most progressive and forward-thinking programs to attract and retain talented employees.
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Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview: download or not?
Dan Sung | 31 May 2012
What is the Pocket-lint daily and how do you get it for free?
The Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview download presents a simple choice for the tech enthusiast of the PC persuasion: should you install it or not?
Well, first, it's probably a good idea to know what a release preview build is. So far, Microsoft has parted with standard testing phase nomenclature - alpha, beta and release candidate - and presented the world with the Windows 8 Developer Preview, Consumer Preview and now the Release Preview. Whether or not the company will go on to release a full version of the Windows 8 Release Candidate (the versions designed have the potential to be the end product) or whether this is indeed it, is unclear.
All the same, the short, simple advice to you, our good PL reader, is, yes, do give the Windows 8 Release Preview a crack. Why? Well, in the past, Microsoft has stated that those suitable for this kind of testing should:
a) like to use the latest software and enjoy experimenting with new technology
b) be comfortable backing up a PC, formatting a hard drive, and installing an operating system from scratch
c) feel comfortable troubleshooting PC problems youself
d) not mind updating software frequently
e) have the installation or recovery media and the knowledge to restore your previous operating system after you're done testing Windows 8 preview.
If that doesn't sound like you, then you're probably on the wrong website.
Of course, what you should pay lots of attention to is statement e). In the recent past, Microsoft has not let users upgrade the release candidate versions of the Windows software to the full blown thing. So don't expect this to be a way of getting yourself a freebie. That said, the Windows 7 RC version did run a good 6 months or so after the official RTM (release to manufacturer) software hit the shelves. So, at the least consider it a stay of execution before you have to shell out the bucks.
What are the minimum specs?
The Windows 8 Release Preview minimum requirements are likely much the same as those of the Consumer Preview, ie: a 1GHz or faster CPU, 1 or 2GB or RAM depending if you're going for the 32- or 64-bit version and 16GB or 20GB of HDD space ready and waiting. If you're computer is already not running too well on Windows 7, then regardless of these specs, do not bother.
You should also note that, if you want to get the most out of the experience, it would be handy to have a touch-enabled monitor and a screen resolution of no less than 1366 x 768 pixels. It's still worth downloading if you don't have a touchscreen but you probably won't enjoy the Metro UI all that much.
How do I install the Windows 8 Release Preview?
Naturally, it's not as easy as it could be but that's partly to put off the kind of people that shouldn't be doing it in the first place. As well as the actual release build itself, there's also a Windows Driver Kit 8 pack to get too otherwise you'll probably find that a lot of your hardware won't actually operate.
You can get the Windows 8 Release Preview from Microsoft here
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Drone Fleet Passes Audit With Flying Colours Drone Fleet Passes...
Drone Fleet Passes Audit With Flying Colours
The Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) recently audited Army's unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, and the fleet passed with flying colours.
DASA's Squadron Leader Malcolm Walker, an experienced pilot and flying instructor, said he was impressed by how Army operated its large and complex fleet.
"Army operate over a thousand UAS, varying from ones the size of a mobile phone to ones the size of a small car," Squadron Leader Walker explained.
"Such a large and diverse fleet presents a number of challenges, such as training, and, to use a pilot term, airmanship.
"It is very difficult to teach a soldier who flies a mobile phone-sized UAS to think like a pilot of a helicopter.
"Clearly, we don't need the soldier to have all the training that the pilot has, but there are aspects of that we do want them to have.
"So the soldier's airmanship needs to be scalable based upon the size and complexity of the UAS being operated."
Another challenge for Army's UAS capability is working closely with other militaries that have even larger fleets.
"Army often operate very closely with the US Marine Corps (USMC) with similar UAS," Squadron Leader Walker said.
"There is a lot of learning that takes place between the USMC and Army that allows Army to advance its operations more quickly than if they didn't operate closely together."
The good news for Army's UAS capability is that, while the DASA audit found areas for improvement, they were still assessed as exemplar operators.
"Army has been operating small to large UAS platforms for years and has learnt significant lessons in how to safely and effectively operate them in a variety of environments," Squadron Leader Walker said.
Source : MoD Australia
Global Military UAV - Market and Technology Forecast to 2029
Publish date: July 2021 - Pages: 270


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Blue Meat – Blue Butcher
June 4, 2013 hkbilly	1 Comment
Industrial chic merges with quirky rustic ornaments and a subtle speakeasy theme in this engagingly designed meat-focused Sheung Wan restaurant.
Slipping comfortably onto the meat bandwagon that has been trending in the restaurant scene of late is Blue Butcher, an eye-catching new establishment from the people behind PLAY and the Mexican-themed Brickhouse. However, instead of just sitting on the bandwagon, the folks at Blue Butcher are shaking it around, with the restaurant touting itself a 'meat specialist,' rather than a steakhouse. This is not without good reason, as they are the only restaurant equipped with a walk-in pink salt dry aging room in Hong Kong. The practiced chefs prepare, bake, age, and hang everything in-house using age-old recipes and modern techniques. They also use the freshest produce and herbs from local organic farms, with a menu of unique and award-winning cocktails standing out as well. Continue reading Blue Meat – Blue Butcher →
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Profiles on social media get Likes and dislikes
May 8, 2013 hkbilly	Leave a comment
There is no denying that social media is now part and parcel of the way many of us work. With recruitment firm Robert Half putting the figure of Hong Kong professionals using LinkedIn at 600,000, the importance of social-networking websites to the business world is only expected to grow.
Social networking websites are among the most popular ways of nurturing professional relationships today, says Pallavi Anand, director of Robert Half Hong Kong. Continue reading Profiles on social media get Likes and dislikes →
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Growing Asian firms need cover in a risky world
According to leading risk management provider Aon, the continued menace of terrorist attacks and political violence is becoming a threat to global business growth. Its 10th annual Terrorism and Political Violence Map released this year reveals that 44 per cent of countries across the globe have an identifiable risk of terrorist attacks.
Continue reading Growing Asian firms need cover in a risky world →
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Be careful not to trip over uneven 'people risks'
April 1, 2013 hkbilly	Leave a comment
Although people are the backbone of any business, they are also a key source of risk. A "people risk" is the possibility of a negative event occurring when recruiting, employing and reorganising talent that causes loss to a business. The extent of this risk can differ depending on the company and the country.
In an attempt to categorise people risk around the globe, Aon Hewitt has been ranking countries according to their people risk since 2011 in its annual ratings survey. The latest Aon People Risk Index this year has found that Asia-Pacific has the widest deviations in risk of any region worldwide.
For example, while Singapore ranked as the second-lowest people-risk city in the world, and Hong Kong the seventh lowest, there were also a number of very high-risk cities such as Chongqing, Hanoi and Phnom Penh. However, there is a lot of economic potential in these riskier cities and there is keen interest to invest in them.
"Asia-Pacific will continue to be an attractive location for business," says Rick Payne, regional talent and rewards practice leader for Aon Hewitt in Asia-Pacific. "However, the region has the widest variance in risks related to recruitment, employment and redeployment of any region worldwide. Companies must carefully assess the risks they face in individual locations and identify the specific steps they need to take to address those risks."
Sally Evans, Aon Hewitt's research manager, adds says that while people risks are lower overall in developed nations, significant risks can still materialise as a result of ageing populations, uneven demographics and restrictive employee practices.
Singapore is a perfect case in point. The country has low people risk in regards to demographics, government support, education, talent development and employment practices. Despite this, however, the Singaporean government recently introduced measures to curb the influx of foreign talent which, while not affecting labour pools immediately, has the potential to harm Singapore's ability to attract talent in the longer term.
"We anticipate Singapore may experience problems in the next few years with regard to demographics," Evans says. "The government is tightening policies regarding the inflow of foreign talent, which will have an impact on Singapore's ability to mitigate the risk of its ageing population and low birth rate."
Hong Kong has slightly higher risks all round, except in demographics. However, it also has issues ahead for future workforce planning, and this is linked to the economy and fluctuating GDP growth.
Nevertheless, Hong Kong, unlike Singapore, is currently alleviating the risk of its ageing working population through pro-business immigration policies and high workforce productivity, Evans says.
"According to the People Risk Index, Hong Kong is low risk – one out of 10 – for low work productivity. In support of this, a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit rated Hong Kong as the most productive workforce in Asia in 2012," Evans says.
On the other hand, across the border, the mainland's tight labour market put a lot of mainland cities above the top 50 ranking in the index. There has also been a growing trend of companies shifting to inland, tier-two cities where costs are lower, but risk is higher.
"The shift inland is due to high costs in first-tier cities as well as new opportunities in these rapidly growing markets," Evans says. "While the attraction of lower operating costs and new markets will continue to draw investors to tier-two cities, our study found significantly higher levels of people risk in these cities. We feel that people risk gives a lot of context to these lower costs."
Janet De Silva, dean of Ivey Asia, has also witnessed this shift to secondary cities. She says these cities lack trained, informed sales and service staff and, above all, managers.
"The growing need for talented managers in China represents by far the biggest management challenge facing multinationals and locally owned businesses alike," she says. "In a recent China Consumer Market Strategies study [conducted by Booz & Company and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai], 37 per cent of multinational companies reported that recruiting talent was their single biggest operational problem in China – a bigger problem than concerns about regulations, lack of transparency or intellectual-property rights."
To combat the constricting talent supply, De Silva says that some overseas companies in China are now opening local academies and campuses, while Chinese companies are now offering management salary packages and benefits that match or exceed those offered by multinationals.
These actions can lessen risk in the respective locations in which they are carried out. Evans says that education is also another key area where people risk can be improved. Using Hong Kong as an example, she says that the current struggle for parents to find places for their children in Hong Kong schools will have an long-term impact on the quality of "home-grown" talent entering the workforce in the future. This is also true of any developing city that does not address its education supply and people risk correctly.
Originally published in South China Morning Post, April 20, 2013
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Clockenflap 2013 – Coconuts HK
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A selection of shots published by Coconuts HK.
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Employers hunt overseas as local skills dry up
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Although it has been a fairly good start to the year for the employment market, not everyone is cooking with gas just yet, as the Hudson Report: Employment Trends for Q1 2013 shows.
The report, which surveyed 5,900 employers from four major industries, found that IT&T (information technology and telecommunications) was the only industry with increased positive hiring intentions. On the other side of the coin, hiring intentions dropped seven percentage points in the consumer-business sector, ten points in manufacturing and industrial, and 0.5 points in banking and financial services (banking and financial-services employers also showed the strongest intentions to decrease headcount).
Tony Pownall, general manager of Hudson Hong Kong, says that the drop in the consumer-business sector reflects the fact that mainland visitors are not buying as much as they used to. Hiring in IT&T, meanwhile, is being driven by demand from businesses to improve both efficiency and profitability via technology.
"Permanent-hiring restrictions among some multinational corporations are resulting in increased demand for vendor services and there is a continuing trend towards the outsourcing of core IT functions," he says. "Big data and the technology associated with manipulating it to support decision-making and improved customer relationships are also continuing to grow in popularity."
The outsourcing trend is not just within IT&T. The report also shows that contracting roles are slowly growing in acceptance in Hong Kong, with a third of businesses using contractors more regularly.
Pownall says that part of the reason for this is that workloads are up 41.8 per cent compared to a year ago. This is being driven largely by more projects (according to 75.3 per cent of respondents), which naturally lend themselves to contracting support.
He adds, though, that stable jobs have always been favoured in Hong Kong. "High living costs and cultural-status issues drive a preference for permanent roles, and contracting is still not seen as a lifestyle choice as it is in other markets," he says. "Sometimes companies switch contract roles to permanent roles in order to improve their chances of finding a good candidate."
Good candidates with the right skills, however, are rather thin on the ground. Marc Burrage, regional director of Hays in Hong Kong, says that this shortage is triggering companies to use more flexible staffing tactics, such as looking overseas or outsourcing.
"We still have a skills shortage and are seeing more employers willing to hire or sponsor qualified overseas candidates in skill-short areas," he says. "Many more are now using flexible staffing approaches than in the past 12 months as part of a flexible approach."
The use of these workers is likely to increase even more over the next year as Hong Kong looks set to continue as a candidate-short market, he adds.
This shortage goes a long way in explaining another of the Hudson report's findings – that staff retention is the top HR priority for Hong Kong employers, with 28.4 per cent placing it above all other concerns.
"Employers are very aware of the challenges of securing the right talent, which are exacerbated by skills shortages and challenges in securing headcount approvals," Pownall says.
He adds that employers are conscious of the fact that strong employee engagement is the key to staff retention, and a high staff turnover causes disruption and affects productivity.
"The right people in the right roles are critical to retaining staff, so giving due consideration to behavioural and motivational fit is important, as these are far more effective indicators of high performance than technical skills," he says.
Pallavi Anand, director of Robert Half Hong Kong, says that she has also observed a fresh emphasis on staff retention recently as a result of companies being at greater risk of losing their best talent to competitors.
"Whether companies are looking to retain or hire new employees, they need to ensure that they are offering more than just an attractive salary," she says. "Candidates want to clearly understand how a company can help them build their skill sets and develop their career. In such a competitive market, factors such as a clear career path, a commitment to work-life balance, and greater responsibilities and challenges will strongly influence individual career decisions and help firms attract and retain talent."
Originally published in South China Morning Post, March 23, 2013
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Steak Out – Carnevino
January 4, 2013 hkbilly	Leave a comment
The talented people from Dining Concepts have done it again, with Carnevino being another successful partnership between the budding restaurant group and the New York-based chef Mario Balti.
With the dust has barely settled on the opening of Mario Batali's Lupa in LHT Tower on Queen's Road Central, the busy chef-lebrity has just opened his second restaurant in Hong Kong, Carnevino, in the same building one floor above. Although both restaurants are targeted at a similar set of clients, Carnevino is slightly more upscale and formal than Lupa, with the new restaurant actually being part of an award-winning chain from Las Vegas. Continue reading Steak Out – Carnevino →
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Home gym as a handy option to stay healthy
December 2, 2012 hkbilly	Leave a comment
As time is money in hectic Hong Kong, many cannot go to the gym to lose those extra kilograms gained during executive lunches.
If one can't go to the gym, the gym can come to those who want some exercise – in the comfort of home.
A home gym does not occupy as much space as one might think, and it doesn't have to contain complex equipment. They are easy to customise, based on individual tastes and a reflection of one's own needs.
When setting up a home gym, one should think about space, ventilation, comfortable flooring, music systems, mirrors and washrooms.
Some of the most common equipment used in home gyms includes treadmills, a multipurpose bench, squat track, Swiss balls, jump ropes, yoga mats, plus weightlifting equipment such as dumbbells or free weights.
Or in the case of Shelly Chan, who is the director of retail operations at a major international hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, a treadmill will do nicely.
Despite her busy work and social life, Chan wants a balanced life, spreading her time between work, family and leisure. Unfortunately, this means other things in life, such as exercise, are often discarded.
Chan is determined not to let this state of affairs continue. With no time to go to a gym and even less time to go out and exercise, she has set up her own home workout routine which, thanks to a treadmill and advice from a Life Fitness coach, allows her to keep everything in check.
"A home gym has many advantages," Chan says. "I have two girls in local schools and they have quite a lot of homework. After I come home in the evenings, I need to take care of them and check their homework, so time is quite tight.
"Making use of a home gym helps with this, as it not only allows me to have a workout in the evenings, after helping the girls, it also enables me to talk to them at the same time – or even talk on the phone and do other stuff."
Chan's first foray into the fitness world was in the United States several years ago, when she joined a local gym that was a few minutes' drive from her home. In Hong Kong, gyms are quite different as she found out after joining one for a short while when she moved back here.
"If you average it out, a home gym is cheaper than joining a gym and there are other benefits, too," she says. "Gyms in Hong Kong are too pushy, especially for women. Staff tend to push hard not only for gym memberships, but also for facials, massage and skincare products as well.
"A home gym is also very handy because I can take a shower whenever I want without having to wait, and there are fewer distractions at home. At a gym, you might run into somebody you know, but at home I have the option to focus on something else while I am working out, or give it my full concentration," Chan says.
"I just don't have the time to go to a gym and work out. Visiting a gym at lunch is too rushed as I have to get some food at the same time and, after work, I don't have the time as I finish quite late and have to come home to the girls and my mind is not relaxed either. Not to mention, traffic in Hong Kong is crazy."
The onus in a home gym should be on ensuring quality equipment, not quantity.
"The great thing about a home gym is that it is very easy to add to the equipment as you see fit," Chan says. "I just need to focus on a few areas, so I just have a piece of equipment for my back and a treadmill from Life Fitness."
She says home gyms are becoming a more popular exercise option among her colleagues and friends.
Chan adds that staying healthy is becoming more important the older she gets. "I've seen a lot of colleagues who have become sick and I'd like to keep an eye on my health as much as possible," she says.
Ash Wayburne, director of T8 Fitness in Hong Kong, says home gyms are flexible. "There are many options when it comes to working out at home. In Hong Kong, flexibility is key, as everybody has busy schedules.
"Being able to do a full body workout at home is a massive benefit. It also means that exercise is always available, and can easily become part of your daily routine.
"We know everybody is busy. We have products that can be used at home, on the road, or even at the office – there are no excuses. We try our best to combine quality and affordability, while taking into account the fact that most people do not have much space in Hong Kong."
Wayburne has seen the fitness equipment sector in Hong Kong go from strength to strength. "People are looking for alternative options to conventional workouts – whether it be something like Pilates, boot-camp style workouts, or working out at home. Space is still a barrier in Hong Kong, but people are becoming much more aware of their health and, more importantly, are prepared to do something about it."
Originally published in LuxeHomes South China Morning Post, November 2012
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Workers stay bullish on economy and job hopes
September 30, 2012 hkbilly	Leave a comment
The new Michael Page Employee Intentions Report reveals that most workers have faith in the strength of the Hong Kong economy. Completed in June, the online survey polled entry-level to senior-management professionals on salary expectations, confidence in the job market and general employment outlook.
Of the 700 respondents, 42 per cent rated the current job market as strong. Some 40 per cent also indicated they are likely to change jobs within the next six to 12 months, with over a third of those who wished to move citing career progression as their primary reason. Half of those surveyed also said they would ask their current employer for a pay rise.
In light of these results, employers will likely need to look at ways to hold on to staff over the next year, says Anthony Thompson, senior managing director for Hong Kong and Southern China at Michael Page.
"Employers need to focus on retention and will be expected to enter into salary negotiations to keep top talent – that is, individuals with the experience and knowledge to drive the business forward," he says, adding that jobseekers are paying special attention to career development plans, something hirers should be wary of.
Employers should also be mindful of the fact that average salary rises look set to grow. Over a third of respondents are aiming for a rise of 6-9 per cent, far outpacing expectations from the same time last year.
However, Thompson adds that while remuneration is important, there are a number of other ways employers can encourage top talent to stay with them.
"We increasingly find that candidates are focused on their career path and not just what is in it for them now," he says, pointing to the impact of career progression on willingness to stay put.
Part of what's fuelling the higher expectations, he suggests, may be the current wealth of job opportunities. Much of this, Thompson says, is attributable to the strength of the mainland economy, which is prompting many firms based there to expand their operations in Hong Kong.
"There is no doubt that China's economic strength and continued growth are a real positive for the employment market in Hong Kong. Asia overall is performing well compared with most other markets," Thompson says.
The only exception may be the financial services sector, which continues to be hit by uncertainty, especially in Europe.
Originally published in South China Morning Post, September 2012
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Baby Calf.. Wait it's twins!
One of the best things about being around/involved with agriculture is the baby animals. What a phenomenon!
Life taking shape right before your very own eyes. And to think the majority of others on this Earth have to watch Animal Planet or Discovery Channel shows to see something give birth and take their first steps.
I can't tell you how many baby calves I have seen in my life. Thousands, easily, though. It never gets old. This is the fun part, well usually. It's also a great teaching point. All living mammals are born in virtually the same way. And also in the same way all animals will eventually pass, no matter the reason.
Seeing it through from beginning to end, makes you appreciate the little things, like watching a calf's first, wobbly steps, mean so much more. You begin to realize that if you slow-down to take time to relish in the small things that the world will indeed-not pass you by. Our society is constantly pushing a "go-go" mentality that is "hot-shotting" us to keep trucking forward, taking no time to enjoy life. How cruel. We simply wave it off and label it as progress so all is alright. But it isn't! Take time to appreciate details: how blue the sky is today, how good rain smells, how wonderful it sounds to listen to birds in the morning. Shoot even living in the city, I have seen beautiful things. People doing beautiful things.
But back to the beauties pictured above! My uncle Anthony, every April Fool's Day, long ago, would do his darnedest to convince us that a cow had twins. And one year he tried to really pull our leg saying she had triplets. Needless to say, we were gullible at first, but after a few tries we grew callused to his fibs. But here a handful of days before April 1, what do we have here? TWINS! Yep ole 33P here had twin heifer calves. What a surprise, indeed. Not too often do you get to see that. But here they are in the flesh.
This just makes me only believe more that there is a dear Lord. And, he has one heck of a sense of humor!
Hope y'all all have a wonderful weekend!


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The following organizations offer after-school, during school, and virtual programs for homeschoolers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) fields.
Home School and Beyond
HSB provides science, social studies, and history classes to homeschool students.
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Kids robotics provides a hands-on experience in solving real world challenges and exposes students to physics, mechanics, electronics, programming, vocabulary building, and much more.
Joy Kids Studio
Kids Making Movies! Movie Making classes after school for ages 6 to 12 years. Students learn both in front and behind the camera's, from writing, directing, to starring in their own movies. We show case student films at the historical River Oaks Theater at the Joy Kids Red Carpet Premiere. The program builds confidence, creativity, media literacy skills, and self-expression.
Glassell Junior Art School
The Glassell Junior School is an art school for young people ages 3–18, devoted to nurturing creativity and dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the arts and an awareness of the world.
Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP)
Duke TIP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth. As a global leader in gifted and talented education, Duke TIP works with students, their families, and educators to identify, recognize, challenge, engage, and help students reach their highest potential.
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A financial literacy program for 8-12 year olds that teaches children about money from a faith-based, age appropriate, and practical perspective. During this program, children have the opportunity to learn the value of entrepreneurship through working in groups and building their own businesses.
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The building at 500 W. Madison St., home of the Ogilvie Transportation Center, is receiving a $10-million-plus face-lift, said John T. Murphy, senior vice-president at Chicago-based MB Real Estate Inc., which manages and leases the building.
Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins & Will Inc. has redesigned the lobby and other public areas to boost light levels and make it easier for visitors to find their way around the 1.4-million-square-foot building, which is owned by GE Asset Management Inc.
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	-DNDEBUG -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS \
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LDFLAGS := -L$(LLVM_DIR)/$(CONFIG)/lib
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I agree that the comments in the example above are pointless, but having them intermingled with code can be very helpful (just like parenthetical remarks in English prose) to understanding the code.
Perhaps the new Pi 3B+ fixes this issue. Does anyone know?
You might be more likely to get responses if you post your question in the General Programming Discussion sub-forum, since your question has nothing to do with Graphics Programming.
Topic: Using Pi as Desktop, how to manage RAM?
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Topic: Need to see more content on your 7in Touch display?
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Topic: Writing clean code isn't hard!
Re: Writing clean code isn't hard!
I think it boils down to: Writing clean code isn't hard; cleaning dirty code is.
BTW, the project I've been working on during the course of my career was originally written in B, then ported to C shortly before I came along (but still looked very B-like), and has recently been made C++ compliant.
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Moria: The Dwarven City is a 1984 fantasy role-playing game supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises for Middle-earth Role Playing.

Contents
Moria is a supplement that details the dwarf city of Moria and its inhabitants.

Reception
Andy Blakeman reviewed Moria for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Although there is a lot of interesting detail, I fear that disappointment is in store for those who buy this module because Moria is the classic dungeon adventure. I'm sorry, but It isn't."

Craig Sheeley reviewed Moria in The Space Gamer No. 75. Sheeley commented that "If you don't mind the price tag, Moria is a wonderful expansion on the information in The Fellowship of the Ring. I suggest it as a sourcebook for dwarves more than as a place of adventure; the inhabitants are too tough and the place is too big (super-sadistic GMs and doom-seeking players might like it, though . . .)."

References

Middle-earth Role Playing supplements
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1984


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Q: How to check radio button automatically with third-party program I'm making a web that provides multiple choice tests, but I'm too lazy to test it the human way. I want to write a simple C# .Net winform program that help me to check every A (or B, C, D) radio button of the question in the web browser. I wonder if a winform application could do that.
Thank for reading :)

A: From what I understand, your main goal isn't to write a C# winforms application, but simply to test your web form. Therefore, instead of spending time to create a dedicated C# application to test your website, I'd suggest you look into dedicated web testing solutions.
There is a very similiar question here already:
How apply Unit tests in ASP.NET webforms
If you don't like that, then another option would be to generate test scripts for the FireFox iMacros extension. The syntax is fairly simple.
Generally speaking, you should look into the topic of existing solutions for testing web forms. It is not advisable to create a dedicated solution simply for that purpose.

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Ok, from your comment I see that it's important for you to have this solution in WinForms, therefore I'll rectify my answer.
To do this in WinForms, perform the following steps:

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*Use the WebBrowser class - add the relevant WebBrowser control to your winform.

*Add a button, you can call it "btnTest".

*Double-click this button in the editor, so a btnTest_Click(...) method stub is created.

*In code, set the desired browser address string like so: string address = @"D:\path\to\my\file.html" or use a http:// address instead if you want that.

*Navigate to this address using the WebBrowser.Navigate method, like so: webBrowser.Navigate(new Uri(address));
This can all run in Form1's constructor after InitializeComponent(); or wherever else you want (on another button combined with an address textbox perhaps?).
Now for your test button code. To perform tests you can use WebBrowser.Document's methods to get HtmlElements and perform actions on them. See the provided documentation links for details.
Some examples:
HtmlElement checkboxGenderFemale = webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("female");
checkboxGenderFemale.InvokeMember("CLICK");

This will simulate a click and check the given checkbox. Remember to assign IDs to all your elements. To fill out a text input, you can use this code snippet:

HtmlElement nameInput = webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("firstname");
nameInput.SetAttribute("value", "NewName");

As you can see, you can simulate clicks and modify attributes of elements with ease. You can put those code examples in your btnTest_Click(...) method and see how it works. If you've done the navigation in Form1's constructor, the form should open with the page already loaded. After btnTest is clicked, the relevant test will be performed.


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Syrian Rebel Leader Keeps Order On The Border
By Deborah Amos
Published September 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM EDT
Syrian rebels captured the Bab al-Salam crossing on the border with Turkey in July. Large numbers of refugees fleeing northern Syria for Turkey come to the crossing, which is orderly and well-run, at least for now.
The Bab al-Salam border crossing, on Syria's northern border with Turkey, has settled into an orderly routine.
Back in July, rebel brigades wrested this border post in Syria's strategic Aleppo province from President Bashar Assad's army in a fierce battle. Now, passports are stamped and cars inspected by the rebels — polite, young, bearded men who wear mismatched military uniforms or civilian clothes.
While the military confrontation was a joint operation, bringing together many rebel brigades, the Northern Storm brigade retains exclusive control of the border post.
It's a tightly run organization. The rebels manage thousands of displaced Syrians camped out in abandoned customs inspection sheds and anywhere else they can find that offers some protection from the burning heat. They wait for a chance to cross the border and find a place in one of Turkey's freshly built tent camps.
A Charismatic Rebel Commander
The calm that prevails can be attributed to Ammar Ibrahim Dadikhi, the commander of the Northern Storm brigade who travels in a late-model, black BMW with a newly designed "revolution'" license plate.
His entourage includes four armed body guards. The younger rebels call him Abu Ibrahim and describe him as a charismatic leader.
He's from the border town of Azaz, and while he has said he was a fruit seller before the revolution, residents of Azaz say he was a successful cigarette smuggler. Now he heads the most powerful brigade on this part of Syria's northern border.
Vedat Xhymshiti / AFP/Getty Images
The Syrian army has been driven out of some towns in the country's northwest. But the Syrian Air Force has struck back in rebel-held places like Azaz, where at least 20 people were killed in this bombing raid on Aug. 15, according to residents.
Abu Ibrahim is a burly man in his early 40s with a light beard and a slight limp from a snipers bullet that hit his foot. He agreed to a rare interview after arriving at the border post where I was waiting to cross into Turkey.
I had been on a three-day trip to Azaz. The border town has been the target of nightly shelling since rebel brigades, including the Northern Storm, drove the Syrian army out on July 19.
Airstrike On A Border Town
A month after rebels declared Azaz a "liberated town," Syrian air force jets swooped low over a densely packed neighborhood and dropped two bombs that killed at least 50 people, flattening more than 15 houses and sending thousands of residents to the Turkish border in what is now described as a refugee crisis.
Abu Ibrahim says the devastating airstrike was revenge for the rebel victory in Azaz. The Syrian army lost at least a dozen tanks in the prolonged street battle.
But many people in Azaz link the airstrike to the kidnapping of a group of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in May. Abu Ibrahim acknowledges that there is a connection. He was in charge of a rebel checkpoint when two buses were stopped outside Azaz.
"We saw two buses coming through the border. They thought we were from the government," Abu Ibrahim said with a slight smile. The young rebels in the room snicker at the joke.
He explained that two men in cars accompanying the tour buses approached him, extended hands in greeting, and said they were military experts from Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group in Lebanon that is a close ally of the Assad regime.
The Lebanese government maintains that the passengers were religious pilgrims on a tour of religious sites in Iran and Turkey and had crossed into Syria on the way to the Lebanese border.
A Dispute With Hezbollah
Abu Ibrahim let most of the passengers go, but held 11 men.
"We refer to them as guests," he said. The rebel leader was convinced that the 11 were high-ranking Hezbollah officials.
His condition for their release was an apology from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for supporting the Assad regime. The kidnapping set off a crisis in Lebanon, including a series of revenge kidnappings in Beirut.
Negotiators from Qatar, Turkey and Lebanon scurried to find a solution. The Syrian government sent a more powerful message. Military jets bombed Azaz as the negotiators tried to strike a deal.
Ten days after the bombing, on Aug. 27, Abu Ibrahim said, he released one of the Lebanese hostages "as a sign of goodwill" after talks with an adviser to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
While the release was hailed as a sign that the crisis was coming to an end, Abu Ibrahim says "there will be a delay" in the release of the 10 Lebanese men still in his custody.
Abu Ibrahim said he has no further demands and will refer the 10 prisoners to civilian courts that have been set up in rebel-held areas. He dismissed a question about charges against the Lebanese "guests." He repeated, pointedly, that Hezbollah was supporting the Assad regime.
According to the opposition, an estimated 2,000 Hezbollah men are in Syria, including many snipers, Abu Ibrahim said by way of explaining the holdup in negotiations for a further hostage release. But the more compelling reason for delay may be close to home.
"They dropped the two bombs, and you've seen the numbers now," he says bitterly. The population of Azaz had swelled to more than 70,000 in the month following the rebel victory.
Many cleared out within hours of the air force attack, running in fear. Only about 10,000 residents remain in a town that now has no electricity or running water and is ghostly quiet at night, except for the thud of mortar and artillery shells that continue to land on empty houses and streets.
Now many of the residents are camped out at the Bab al-Salam border crossing. Abu Ibrahim and his young rebel brigade keep order until the refugees can cross into Turkey.
Deborah Amos
Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
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Q: Slick Slider go to nth slider on start I want to use Slick Slider to start form 20th slide. My code is:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.timeline-items').slick({
   slidesToShow: 5,
   slidesToScroll: 4,
   dots:true,
   arrows:true,
   infinite:false,
   autoplay: true,
   autoplaySpeed: 4500
});
$('.timeline-items').slickGoTo(20, false);
});
</script>

Slider fires OK (.slick functions starts), but then i got:
Uncaught TypeError: $(...).slickGoTo is not a function

What I do wrong?

from documentation:
slickGoTo
int : slide number, boolean: dont animate
Navigates to a slide by index

A:           $(function() {

                var tiSlick = $('.timeline-items').slick({
                              slidesToShow: 5,
                              slidesToScroll: 4,
                              dots:true,
                              arrows:true,
                              infinite:false,
                              autoplay: true,
                              autoplaySpeed: 4500
             });
             tiSlick.on('init', function(event, slick) {
             tiSlick.slick('slickGoTo', 20);
        });
    });


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"Circumcision Scar," an Explosive New Book About Child Abuse, Medical Fraud, Cult Rituals and Foreskin Restoration, by Jay J. Jackson
by OutNewsWire Releases | May 4, 2020 | News, Releases
Los Angeles, Calif., May 4, 2020 (OUTNEWSWIRE) — "Circumcision Scar," by Jay J. Jackson, is an intensely personal story about the author's 35-year foreskin restoration and the dubious methods used to mandate circumcision onto every male possible. Haunted by vivid recurring nightmares since childhood, Jackson was in his 50s when he realized he was being tormented by repressed memories of his neonatal circumcision. Jackson began writing to make sense of his thoughts, which became the impetus for this unprecedented book.
Jackson states, "We all possess memories of every moment we've ever experienced, but we're unable to access most of them without a powerful emotional trigger to bring them to the surface."
In this unique LGBTQ memoir, Jackson details the psychological torment his circumcision caused and the detrimental impact it had on his sexual function throughout his life. In seeking treatment for his condition, Jackson was repeatedly accosted and chased out of exam rooms by doctors who branded him immoral and perverse for merely suggesting circumcision is harmful. It took a year before Jackson found a cosmetic surgeon sympathetic to his plight and agreed to treat him.
Jackson endured two painful experimental surgeries in his 20s to repair the damage done to him at birth, only to be shunned by nurses in the hospital who refused to care for him because they didn't approve of what he'd done. Jackson explains, "It's ridiculous. Their behavior was childish and unprofessional. It's hard to believe circumcision is anything but cult doctrine when alleged professionals act like that for puritanical reasons alone."
Jackson's book goes on to debunk the alleged health benefits of circumcision with facts and statistics, and he takes particular offense with comparing circumcision to a vaccine and preventative for HIV/AIDS. "They used that exact same argument for circumcision and syphilis a hundred years ago, but the statistics don't hold up. Foreskins aren't the plague, they're a natural part of the male anatomy. To call circumcision a vaccine is both dangerous and delusional."
Jackson believes his book faces an uphill battle because most readers will refuse to hear the facts. "Circumcision is the oldest cult ritual in history, and it's rooted in religion. As a gay man, I know all too well that people are motivated to protect religion over children, and they'll say and do almost anything to uphold that bias."
Jackson equates circumcision forced upon any child as nothing less than surgical rape. "It's important for everyone to know, the doctor credited with making circumcision mainstream in America, was obsessed with circumcising all women too. I believe every child, boy or girl, has the right to be who they were born to be. No baby should be forced to undergo a surgical alteration at birth to remedy a malady that doesn't exist. There are no genetic markers for religion. No child is born Christian, Jewish or Muslim. But there are indeed genetic markers for being LGBTQ, and the pious have historically used religion like a bludgeon to force children into being something they're not."
Jackson's book depicts how the results of his surgically restored foreskin were so convincing that his doctors, and even his husband of 30 years, believed he had a natural foreskin. But Jackson remained unsatisfied with his surgical results, and decades later, used manual stretching techniques to complete his transition. Techniques, Jackson points out, that date back to ancient times.
"My situation was unique. Anyone starting today could probably restore their foreskin in 5-8 years. After my surgery, I did my best to put this behind me, that's why I never told my husband about it. But it kept gnawing at me until I finally had no choice but to finish what I had started. Circumcision is a fundamental human rights violation, and restoring my foreskin was the cure. This is my body. No one has the right to force surgical conformity onto children to make them fit their idea of morality."
The latter part of Jackson's book details how Christian American doctors usurped First Amendment religious freedoms to mandate the oldest surgery and religious ritual in history onto a nation. The overzealousness these doctors used to sell circumcision to their patients includes an alleged cure for distemper in children, to the US government providing prostitutes on Navy boats in exchange for foreskins, to the wild claim that one patient's foreskin actually caused him to develop a brain tumor.
Jackson elaborates, "No parent wants to believe they've harmed their child for no reason, but that's the lie these doctors have forced upon us. Parents have to stand up for their children or this arcane brutality will never stop. And doctors should be held accountable for knowingly doing harm to children when their solemn oath morally and ethically binds them to harm no one."
Jay J. Jackson is a freelance writer in Los Angeles and the caregiver for his husband of 30 years. He enjoys tending to their butterfly garden and is an avid Star Wars and Star Trek fan, "One offers a mythological alternative to religious fables, the other, hope for humanity's future where we've outgrown the inane aspects of those fables in favor of acceptance and unity." Jay hopes his story will inspire parents to prioritize protecting children over protecting religion.
"Circumcision Scar – My 35 Year Foreskin Restoration, Neonatal Circumcision Memories, and How Christian American Doctors Hijacked Holy Circumcision to Dupe a Nation," by Jay J. Jackson, will be released September 8, 2020. To preview the book visit www.CircumcisionScar.com. The book can be pre-ordered now in hardcover or Ebook at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple Books and local bookstores via IndieBound.
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"Circumcision Scar – My 35 Year Foreskin Restoration, Neonatal Circumcision Memories, and How Christian American Doctors Hijacked Holy Circumcision to Dupe a Nation" – by Jay J. Jackson
LGBTQ Memoir, Parenting, Men's Health, Social Science Customs and Traditions
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i) Preface
2) How will your son learn he's been circumcised?
3) Early Restoration Techniques
4) Attack of the Urologists
5) Foreskin Restoration Surgery
6) Embracing Denial
7) Circumcising Our Imaginary Baby
8) The Final Stretch
9) Faux Foreskin
10) The Prepuce Police
11) How I Remembered My Neonatal Circumcision
12) An Apatheist in a Dogmatic World
13) Cult or Culture?
14) Christian American Doctors Hijack Circumcision
15) Foreskin Fascist
16) The Church of Medicine
17) Side Effects May Include
18) Modern Intactivism


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Hourly rates under CCFAs
By admin on Sep 29, 2014 | 6 comments
Many cases are still being run under CCFAs which define "basic charges" along the following or similar lines: "charges for work done by or on behalf of Smith and Jones Solicitors, calculated on the basis of the hourly rates allowable for the work in the court in which the claim in question is conducted or would be conducted if proceedings were to be issued" I take "allowable" to refer to the Guideline Hourly Rates for the relevant court. "Allowable" cannot refer to whatever hourly rates it might be possible to persuade a judge to allow at the conclusion of the case. This would create all kinds of indemnity principle problems. Neither can it mean the rates that another judge in that court once allowed in a vaguely similar case in the past. That does not make the rate "allowable" but simply "once allowed in the case of X". If that is correct, it means there is no discretion to seek rates in excess of Guideline Rates. Secondly, what happens if the claim was one of those issued out of Northampton (CCMCC) County Court and settled prior to transfer to a specific court? Although it was a purely administrative matter that Northampton County Court was the named court, was it not being "conducted" in that court if issued or "would be conducted" in that court if not yet issued? If so, the rates under a similarly worded CCFA would be limited to National 2...
Definition of road traffic accident
Is an accident concerning an elderly lady being hit by a mobility scooter in the fruit and vegetable aisle of a Tesco superstore a "road traffic accident" under CPR 45.7 (now CPR 47.9) such that fixed predictive costs apply; a road traffic accident being defined as: "an accident resulting in bodily injury to any person or damage to property caused by or arising out of the use of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place" "'motor vehicle' means a mechanically propelled vehicle intended for use on roads" "'road' means any highway and any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges over which a road passes." Yes, said Deputy District Judge Dawson in Scott v Malcolm (Liverpool County Court, 5 April 2013). Thanks to Patrick Driscoll at Shakespeares for providing a copy of the...
Drafting bills of costs
PD 47 para.5.8 states: "Where it is necessary or convenient to do so, a bill of costs may be divided into two or more parts" It is difficult to conceive a more necessary or convenient situation then where, due to the transitional provisions, part of the costs will be subject to the old proportionality test and part will be subject to the new Jackson test. Why then do some law costs draftsmen fail to do this? How is a judge on assessment meant to apply the correct tests where the bill is not clearly split? Should applications be made to compel such bills to be re-drafted? Alternatively, should the judge just adopt a robust broad-brush approach and apply the new test to all costs claimed (with the receiving party having nobody but themselves to blame for not having drafted the bill...
Binding legal authority
I don't know how Mark Friston feels when sitting as a Deputy Master at the Senior Courts Costs Office when one of those appearing before him quotes from his book Civil Costs: Law and Practice as being a persuasive record of the law as it stands. Even odder, perhaps, if his opponent in court refers to his book to support an argument counter to that which Friston is advancing. However, I can confirm that I find it rather surprising when I read Replies to Points of Dispute citing something I once wrote on the Legal Costs Blog as though this was somehow likely to sway the poor judge one way or the...
Costs of Part 8 proceedings
By admin on Sep 17, 2014 | 14 comments
Has the Court of Appeal messed up again (Mitchell/Denton style)? One of the problems with the English legal system is that the higher courts will sometimes try to do justice to the facts of a case but create a precedent in the process with unintended consequences. This is perhaps particularly acute when it comes to legal costs matters where the higher courts often have only limited understanding of the day-to-day issues that arise. Step forward Tasleem v Beverley [2013] EWCA Civ 1805. This is a decision from the tail end of last year and appears to have received only limited commentary to date. The issue facing the Court of Appeal was: "whether the court can award a claimant its costs of what are known as costs-only proceedings brought under CPR Part 8 in accordance with the procedure set out in CPR rule 44.12A where a default costs certificate has been obtained, as the claimants contend; or is a claimant in those circumstances limited to the amount of the costs specified in the default costs certificate, as the respondents contend? Is the default costs certificate the end of the matter, in other words." The substantive claims had settled without proceedings being issued. Part 8 costs-only proceedings were issued and notices of commencement served. No points of dispute were served and the claimants obtained default costs certificates. Were the claimants limited (in addition to the amounts set out in the bills) to the fixed costs payable for obtaining a default costs certificate (£80 fixed fee plus court fee) or were additional costs recoverable for the work concerned with issuing the Part 8 proceedings? The Court of Appeal concluded that the fixed costs for obtaining a default costs certificate did not include the costs of issuing Part 8 proceedings and such costs were in the discretion of the court. So far, so unremarkable. The difficulty that arises lies in the reasoning behind the Court's decision. The Court held: "The bringing of Part 8 costs-only proceedings is not the commencement of, or part of, the detailed assessment proceedings, albeit it is a necessary preliminary to that process if there are no underlying proceedings in existence." So, Part 8 proceedings are apparently not "part...


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Progress on tour
The PRINOTH ÖSV Tour with a green guest of honour
On 16 December, the veil was lifted and PRINOTH presented both of the concept models, LEITWOLF h2MOTION and HUSKY eMOTION, to the public. Cast innovation in the area of alternative drive units!
But both of these beauties should naturally also be made accessible to the public in spite of the current restrictions and are therefore embarking on a sustainability tour.
While the LEITWOLF h2MOTION will be making the rounds in Cortina soon – PRINOTH is the official supplier of the 46th Alpine Skiing World Cup - the HUSKY eMOTION is accompanying its PRINOTH pack to Austria, to support the ÖSV Tour.
Amongst other things, PRINOTH and the Austrian Ski Federation (ÖSV) are already closely linked by a completely well thought-out project for the athletes' starting area: In cooperation with the ÖSV, the PRINOTH Food Truck serves as the "Warm-Up Zone", in which the downhill skiing stars can prepare themselves for the competition, protected from the weather.
The PRINOTH Food Truck is accompanying the ÖSV Tour alongside the HUSKY eMOTION and ensures the best possible preconditions at the race, together with the LEITWOLF and BISON: Semmering, St. Anton, both hills of the Four Hills Tournament Bischofshofen, Flachau, Schladming,… and those are only the stages of the PRINOTH ÖSV Tour at which the full PRINOTH power is in operation! Even at the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, the enormous climbing ability of the BISON was needed once again. As a reliable partner when it comes to innovation, quality and reliability, PRINOTH is simply the first choice.


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